Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov is often called the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, but most people know him as one of the twentieth century's most ardent and unrelenting champions of human rights and freedoms. It was for his work as an outspoken dissident to the Soviet regime that the Nobel Committee awarded him the Peace Prize in 1975.
Sakharov was born in 1921 to a family of Moscow intelligentsia. His father was a teacher of physics and a popular writer of science books, as well as a humane and forthright man (Gorelik, 1999). After graduating high school, Andrei enrolled in Moscow University in 1938. When the war broke out wit Germany, his weak heart prevented him from being drafted. He graduated with honors in 1942 and didn't want to pursue further studies. Instead he wanted to help with the war effort. He worked as an engineer in a military ammunition plant where he met his wife Klavdia Vikhireva (Gorelik, 1999).
Physicist Sakharov
Sakharov twice declined invitations......

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